Exploratorily

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In an exploratory manner.

    "Thereupon his first act was to pass his hand exploratorily over his head, when there came away a mass of hair not smaller than the first quantity."

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explorativelyexploratively

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"Thereupon his first act was to pass his hand exploratorily over his head, when there came away a mass of hair not smaller than the first quantity."

Etymology

From exploratory + -ly.

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